Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21
Inv Gould Makes Some Interesting
Talk Before the X. r. Commission.
A Desperate suioide-Prettv Maggie
Mitchell Returns Home-The Coercion
Act Debated in the House of Com.
mons-Mexican Justics--An Irish Nom
oir-Ihe Louisville Racos- Suit for
$4,000, ,O00-A Novel Yacht-sullivan
will Fight Kilrain-General News.
A DESPERATE SUICIDE.
George Muir Climbs tho Golden Stairs
Propelled by Whiskey.

Propelled by Whisky.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, May 1s.-An OK
ceedingy desperate suicide occurred las
night George Muir arrived on the mid
night train Monday from the East. HI,
seemed perturbed and had been drinkips
heavily. Spending the remainder of the
night at saloons. he drank frequent and
deep potations of fiery liquor, which
seemed to have but little effect upon his
excited mental organization. At daylight
he sought ex-Mayor Lail. a former acquain.
+once at his room, who seeing his condi.
tion. took him to a lodging house on Rail.
road avenue, where he secured q room and
wont to bed, but soon aroused and contin-
nod hs deep libations, which he kept up
during the entire week.
About 10 o'clock last night he was seen
on the fiat roof of one-story building ad-
Joining his lodging house by parties who
vent in search OF Mr.. Lail. Not finding
him q search was instituted for Muir, who
had disappeared from the roof. Three
hours afterward his dead body was found
by the side OF an acequia two blocks away,
with frightful cash on the right side of the
neck. A terrible struggle had taken place.
The ground about the body was torn up
and stained with great pools OF blood, and
silver and gold coins from his pockets being
scattered over the ground for twenty feet
each way.
By tracing the blood, which was in great
blotcbes on the sidewalk and street, his
course and the manner OF his suicide were
evident. He had
CLIMBED TO THE ROOF
from rear balcony. taking with him a
rope with which he evidently intended to
hang himself from the roof. but finding
nothing to which the rope could be attached
be had taken off his coat, vest and hat, on
top OF which he laid his fine gold watch and
chain. Then, taking long steel-bladed
paper cutter from the vest pocket he had
plunged the keen.edged instrument into
bis neck in close proximity to the juglar
vein, but missing it, although cash two
and one-half inches long and two inches
deep was made.
The blood marks indicate that he at |
tempted to descend from the roof, but hesi- |
tated at the edge, and then jumped to the |
ground, a distance of twelve feet, into the |
rear yard. He then climbed a high board |
fence at the side of an ash;honse, whore he
evidently rested, as pool of blood covered |
vacant lot adjoining, and made his wav
across lots and through an alley to the |
front street, and acequia. where
his WET CLOTHING
Indicated that hs sithsr isii into the water |
or made an attempt to complete the work
OF self-destruction by drowning, but strug
gled out OF the brook. where he fell to the
ground from exhaustion and died while
struggling to rise again.
He was fine-looking man. with dark
hair and mustache, 3s years of age. He
had been employed as military telegraph
operator al Forts Whipple and Prescott,
Arizona for the past six years and was
we'll liked though always a hard drinker.
It was not known there that he had a
amily, but since he has been here he has
frequently spoken of domestic troubles and
family in Albany, N. Y, creating tho i'm
preston that he had just returned from
Quincy to that city for the purpose OF
lHecting reconciliation, which he failed to
accomplish. When he first went to Arizona
e had his surname changed by the legisla-
ure from Menuir to Muir.